The last conscience of the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 51: Foot Tower, Nameless

It doesn't matter who is the older brother or younger brother.

Cao Yang took out his notebook again: "I have chosen a few more people. This one was born in the first year of Yuanyou. She is one year younger than you. Let Zhao Youfu adopt her as an adopted daughter. Why marry into the Liang family? This My sister knows about it and agrees with it."

Liang Xin:......

Cao Yang: "Or, look at this one."

"Drink, let's go, find someone to drink with." Liang Xin stretched out her hand to hold Cao Yang, and then shouted: "Come here, change clothes and prepare the car."

"No, no, do you want my sister to beat you and keep you in bed for a few days?" Cao Yang urged.

He had seen with his own eyes how miserable the young princes, young marquises, and uncles he had proposed to be in after going to the courtyard.

"It's okay. I have built a small restaurant by myself. It is not open to the public at ordinary times. Only my own people go to eat."

Liang Xin was talking about the nameless foot tower.

Lu Wenchong, Eunuch Hai and others usually went there to treat guests to drinks.

Cao Yang still wanted to persuade, but Liang Xin said: "There are no wine servers or singers there."

"That's fine."

Cao Yang was also thinking about Liang Xin's safety.

Soon after getting on the carriage, Liang Xin did not go to the restaurant immediately, but to Zhang Mansion.

Liang Zhong was not asked to call the door, so Liang Xin went to call the door herself.

When the door came out, Liang Xin handed over a greeting card: "Liang Xin, the inspector of Zhaowen Hall, please come out for a drink with Mr. Zhang."

When the door opened just now, they just thought it was another new scholar coming to visit and didn't take it seriously.

When Liang Xin introduced herself to her family, the doorman almost dropped the greeting card to the ground with a shake of her hand. Her legs were a little weak and she almost knelt down.

I don’t know if Liang Xin is easy to offend or not, but his father Liang Shicheng is definitely someone that Bianjing City cannot afford to offend now. Even his own master, the left prime minister, has to give him some face.

Hurry up and open the middle door.

After a while, Zhang Dun changed into his casual clothes, went out without saying a word, and got on Liang Xin's carriage.

Unnamed restaurant.

Originally, I had not thought of a name.

Now, just call it Wu Ming.

Cao Tan's opinion, Liang Xin's sentence, there are many heroes without names.

Entered the restaurant, second floor.

After sitting down, Zhang Dun said: "My strange skills are very clever, but I have learned [-]% from my father-in-law in the palace."

Liang Xin: "Well, do you want to renovate the whole house to warm the pavilion? My husband's house is very cheap. It is for normal use. It uses hard ceramic pipes. The craftsmen have done a good job and it will not leak."

"want."

Zhang Dun only said one word.

Cao Yang wanted to snicker, but saw Zhang Dun's serious expression and held it back.

Liang Xin poured wine for Zhang Dun: "Bring me a message for my father."

"speak."

"Many people have been found to be corrupt in repairing rivers and market roads in Bianjing City. Just one thing, the place in front of the palace gate was originally made of black stone, but it was ordinary stone dyed with ink. If it rains heavily, the officials will I happened to be passing by, and I wonder if someone’s head will be moved?”

Zhang Dun didn't answer, just looked at Liang Xin.

Liang Xin continued: "Whatever happens in Shanling can happen no matter what. A slight mistake will cost you your job and your head."

Zhang Dun nodded slightly.

Liang Xin: "Resign."

Zhang Dun was silent.

When the food and drinks were served, Zhang Dun picked up his chopsticks to eat meat and drink wine.

Liang Xin poured wine for Zhang Dun.

After drinking a jar of wine and eating half of the food, Zhang Dun spoke: "Go back and tell your father that I will go to court tomorrow morning to report my old age."

"Half a year, my father said half a year." Zhang Dun bowed his hands, stood up and walked out.

Liang Xin stretched out her hand to stop Zhang Dun, but she didn't speak.

Zhang Dun walked downstairs, and Liang Xin ordered: "Come here, add two more dishes and bring a jar of light fruit wine."

Cao Yang asked: "Why?"

Liang Xin replied: "My father said that Duke Dongpo was his biological father, and the Su family recognized this. Before the Wu Shitai case, Uncle Su Tong, the younger brother of Duke Dongpo, impeached Zhang Dun. Wu Shitai At the time of the first case, Zhang Xianggong was a member of the new law lineage, but he tried his best to protect the old law lineage, Dongpo Gong. After repaying the favor, the rest is revenge."

Cao Yang nodded, this was Liang Shicheng repaying his kindness.

Liang Xin added: "Brother..., brother. There is something that only you are suitable for."

"Go ahead."

"After Zhang Xianggong resigns, go to the Privy Council Deputy Chengzhi Zongze and tell him how deep the water is in the capital. He should visit Zhang Xianggong's house more often and learn how to survive as an official in the capital. This person is very important. If troops are deployed in the northwest, you may not If you can go, your uncle will definitely go. Information, ordnance, food and other things must be supported by the Privy Council. It is very important to have a reliable person."

"That makes sense." Cao Yang thought Liang Xin was right.

Liang Xin added: "These days, I often come to my house when I have time, so that you can know immediately about the progress of Guo Zhongxiao's case."

"This is about...drinking." Cao Yang originally wanted to say thank you, but changed his words when he reached his mouth.

We are almost going to be a family, there is no need to say thank you.

evening.

Liang Xin returned home and Liang Shicheng had just left the flower hall.

The new top scholar came to visit, just as Liang Xin said, he had to live up to his reputation.

The father and son sat down in the study room in the north courtyard.

Liang Xin got straight to the point: "Father, I persuade Mr. Zhang to resign in your name. Cao Yang asked me why. I said that he had helped Mr. Dongpo in the Wu Shitai case."

"Then what's the real reason?"

Liang Xin replied: "I quite like Zhang Xianggong's character. Above the court, there needs to be an upright person, otherwise how can I show that my father is so considerate in the official family."

Hahaha, Liang Shicheng laughed: "Son, that's good."

Liang Xin: "Hide me well, I don't want to be discovered too early. Today, Mr. Zhang said that I have learned [-]% of the tricks of the father-in-law in the palace, which is just to ridicule me. I don't care, this is good, Next, I will ask for the position of military commander for my father, and then the northwest military supervisor."

Liang Shicheng nodded approvingly.

That's right.

If he has military exploits and the officials are happy, his position will be stable.

If you just rely on flattery, you will easily fall out of favor.

Liang Xin stood up and said, "Dad, please rest early. It's been a hard day since you were on duty in the palace. I'm going back to the South Courtyard."

Liang Shicheng nodded.

Why did Liang Xin want to protect Zhangdun?

Before traveling through time, Liang Xin read a book called History of the Song Dynasty - Biography of Traitors, in which Zhang Dun was described as more hateful than Qin Hui.

After seeing it with her own eyes, Liang Xin felt that something was not right about the book.

Zhang Dun, the old Zhang family produced many famous officials, and his elder brother Zhang Kai was a truly famous general.

More than 20 or [-] of his brothers from the same generation served as officials in the court.

The fact that he refused to give the official position to his son can be regarded as a clean character.If there is anything hateful about him, it is probably the promotion of the Cai brothers.

In Liang Xin's opinion, we can only say that he is stupid and does not see people clearly. We cannot say that he is bad.

Returning to the south courtyard, we entered Wang Jingyu's small courtyard.

Yue'er welcomed Liang Xin into the house.

Wang Jingyu is settling accounts.

Liang Xin motioned to Yue'er not to disturb her, and walked to the side quietly to watch.

The more she looked, the weirder Liang Xin felt.

It was obvious that this person took property-grabbing as a profession and planned to train a team of people to do it in the long term.

(End of this chapter)